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Voices Found: The Visitation and Easter 7C Songs of thanksgiving VF 107, 117

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                                                                                      A  Bryn Mawr College Lantern Let all things now living Voices Found  107   Let all things now living a song of thanksgiving to God the creator triumphantly raise, who fashioned and made us, protected and stayed us, who still guides us on to the end of our days. God's banners are o'er us, his light goes before us, a pillar of fire shining forth in the night, till shadows have vanished and darkness is banished, as forward we travel from light into light. His law he enforces, the stars in their courses and sun in its orbit obediently shine; the hills and the mountains the rivers and fountains, the deeps of the ocean proclaim him divine. ...

Voices Found: Easter 6C The healing river, VF 93, 96

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                                                                                          Voices Found #93 God, creator, source of healing,  here we pray for wholeness and health. Guide our work, our thoughts and feeling, guide the sharing of our wealth, Give discernment in our decisions give compassion in our care; reconcile our strife and divisions  as we search for means to share. Words: Brigid Pailthorp Music: Abbots Leigh, Cyril Vincent Taylor (1907-1991) On the day of the Sabbath we went out the gate by the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women gathered there.  Now a certain woman named Lydia, a merchant of purple cloth from the city of Thyatira,a worshipper of God, was listening to us. ...

Voices Found:A long lost lamb, WLWC Easter 5, VF 93, 95

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  Voices Found #93 God, creator, source of healing,  here we pray for wholeness and health. Guide our work, our thoughts and feeling, guide the sharing of our wealth, Give discernment in our decisions give compassion in our care; reconcile our strife and divisions  as we search for means to share. Words: Brigid Pailthorp Music: Abbots Leigh, Cyril Vincent Taylor (1907-1991) On the day of the Sabbath we went out the gate by the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women gathered there.  Now a certain woman named Lydia, a merchant of purple cloth from the city of Thyatira,a worshipper of God, was listening to us.  The Messiah opened her heart to listen eagerly to us, saying what was said by Paul.  As she was baptized along with her household, she urged us, saying,"If you have judged me to be faithful to Christ, come and stay at my home."  And she persuaded us.   Acts 16:13-15, tr. Gafney Lydia, a merc...